Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach Memoirs” Comes to the BHS Stage

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Brewster High School is thrilled to announce the cast of its fall drama, “Brighton Beach Memoirs” by Neil Simon.

About the show: Eugene Jerome and his family are fighting the hard times and sometimes each other—with laughter, tears, and love. It is 1937 in Brooklyn during the heart of the Depression. Fifteen-year-old Eugene Jerome lives in Brighton Beach with his family. Dreaming of baseball and girls, he is witty, perceptive, and forever fantasizing his baseball-diamond triumphs as star pitcher for the New York Yankees. As our guide through his “memoirs,” Eugene takes us through a series of trenchant observations and insights that show his family meeting life’s challenges with pride, spirit, and a marvelous sense of humor. Eugene must cope with the mundane existence of his family life in Brooklyn: formidable mother, overworked father, and his worldly older brother Stanley. Throw into the mix his widowed Aunt Blanche, her two young (but rapidly aging) daughters and you have a recipe for hilarity, served up Simon-style. This bittersweet memoir evocatively captures the life of a struggling Jewish household where, as his father states, “if you didn’t have a problem, you wouldn’t be living here.”

“Brighton Beach Memoirs” will run November 2nd, 3rd, and 4th at 7:30pm at the Brewster High School Performing Arts Center: 50 Foggintown Rd, Brewster, NY. Tickets are now on sale and can be purchased online using the following link: TICKETS

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